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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label 2colfloat</title>
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<h3>Placing two-column floats at bottom of page</h3>
<p/>You specified placement &lsquo;<code>[htbp]</code>&rsquo; for your full-width figure or
table, but they always get placed at the top of the page...  Well,
it <em>is</em> what the documentation says: LaTeX, unadorned, only
allows full-width floats at the top of a page, or occupying (part of) a
float page.
<p/>The <i>stfloats</i> package ameliorates the situation somewhat, and
makes LaTeX honour &lsquo;[b]&rsquo; placement as well; the
<i>dblfloatfix</i> package combines a tidied version of the changes
made in <i>stfloats</i> with the

  <a href="FAQ-2colfltorder.html">float ordering corrections</a> defined in
  <i>fixltx2e</i>.
<p/>A particular problem with <i>stfloats</i> and <i>dblfloatfix</i>
is that the float will appear, at its earliest, on the page after it
is specified.  This has two undesirable side-effects: first, there may
be no bottom float on the first page of a document, and second, float
numbers may become &ldquo;entangled&rdquo; (particularly if you&rsquo;re using
<i>dblfloatfix</i> that ensures that the early-specified bottom
float is set <em>before</em> any single column floats).
<p/>(The FAQ team doesn&rsquo;t know of any package that will make
LaTeX honour &lsquo;[h]&rsquo; placement of double-column floats, but the
<i>midfloat</i> package can be pressed into service to provide
something approximating the effect it would have.)
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<dt><tt><i>dblfloatfix.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk  tex-archivemacros/latex/contrib/misc/dblfloatfix.sty">macros/latex/contrib/misc/dblfloatfix.sty</a>
<dt><tt><i>stfloats.sty, midfloat.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of
  <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk  tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sttools.zip">macros/latex/contrib/sttools</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk  tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sttools/">browse the directory</a>)
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<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=2colfloat">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=2colfloat</a>
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